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But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

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The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Inspire Men Mixtures
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Government Order Political
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

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